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Just how many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?

Music impacts us all. But just in recent times have quantify and scientists sought to describe the manner music affects us for an emotional level. Studying the links between air as well as the head suggests that listening to and playing music really can change how our brains, and thus our bodies, function.

It appears the therapeutic power of music, over mood and body, is only just beginning to be comprehended, although music therapy is old. For a lot of years therapists have been recommending the usage of music – listening and study – for the decrease in pressure and tension, the alleviation of pain. And music has also been advocated as an assistance for favorable change in mood and emotional states.

Michael DeBakey, who in 1966 became the very first surgeon to successfully implant an artificial heart, is on record saying: “Creating and performing music encourages self expression and offers self gratification while giving joy to others. In medicine, increasing published reports show that music has a healing effect on patients.”
Doctors consider using music therapy in hospitals and nursing homes makes people feel better, but in addition makes them recover quicker. And across the country, medical specialists are starting to use the newest revelations about the impact of music on the mind to treating patients.

In a single study, his team and research worker Michael Thaut detailed sufferers of cerebral palsy, stroke and Parkinson’s disease who worked to music took larger, more balanced steps than those whose treatment had no accompaniment.

Other scientists have found the sound of drums may affect how bodies work. Quoted in USA Today in a 2001 article, chairwoman of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Suzanne Hasner, says musical potential is retained by people that have dementia or head injuries.